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ART 0F EMBEOIDEEING AND EMBROIDERY.

No. 268,332. Patented Nov. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CANDACE VWHEELER, OF JAMAICA, NEW YORK.

ART OF EMBROIDERING AND EMBROIDERY.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,332, dated November 28, 1882,

Application filed July 20. 1881. (Model.) Patented in England March 14, 1882, No. 1.233.

To all w/Lom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CANDACE WHEELER, of Jamaica, Long Island,in the county ofQueens and State of NewYork, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in the Art of Embroidering, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a new method of embroidering, by which tapestry or picture eects may be produced; and the invention consists in passing the embroidering-threads under the warp and over the Woof of the fabric, thereby covering the wopf with the embroidering-threads, whereby the latter will be held in place by the crossing threads of the fabric, thus imitating the surface of the woven fabric, so far as relates to the form of its threads, while producing the color and form of the picture or design. The design or picture to beproduced is preferably first traced or drawn upon the fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan of a fabric with the picture or design wrought thereon with colored threads, the threads of the fabric and woven covering beinglmuch enlarged. The fabric shown in Fig. l is a single ply. Fig. 2 shows in plan, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 in sections, twoply or special fabric which is preferably used for this work.

In Figs. 2, 4, and 5 the ornamental threads which constitute the design are indicated by heavy black line. The sections show respectively in Fig. 3 the fabric as cut upon the straight or central warp-thread, B2 The serpentine or binding warp-threads B and B', which are indicated in dotted lines in this ligure, hold the Woof-thread G of the face and C of the back against the warp-thread B2, and bind the whole fabric together. The woofthreads O of the face are smaller than the woofthreads C of the back of the fabric, andwhen the ornamental threads F are introduced they occupy the position indicated in Figs. 2, 4, and 5,passing under the loops of the binding warpthreads B and B', where they cross the woofthreads C of the face, and to a greater or less extent cover th'.j threads C, so that the threads F are apparently woven into the fabric, and

by their difference in color fromV the loomwoven Woof-thread produce the pictured design.

In Fig. 1, which represents the invention as worked upon a single-ply fabric, A represents.

the fabric. B represents the warp, and C the woof. F F represents the colored embroid 4ring-threads following or covering the woof C.

In the operation in this instance the threaded needle is passed up through the fabric A at the points where it is designed that the einbroidering-threads F should begin to overlie the woot' C. Then the needle, drawing the em broidering-threads F after it, is passed along the woot' C beneath each successive warpthread B to make single stitches, or beneath every other thread B for double stitches; and at the termination of the Woof-thread thus covered the threaded needle is passed down again through the fabric A and the embroideringthread there fastened; or the said needle is turned about and passed in an opposite and parallel direction along the next Woof-thread O beneath the warp-threads B, as set forth, and thus the work is continued until the design is colnplete,the different-colored threads being thus introduced or interwoven, as may be required, for the desired effect. These threads F F may be applied in long or double stitches, as shown at a, in short or single stitches, as shown at b, or iu stitches of any length that are best calculated to produce the desired effects. Excepting where the embroidering stitches are begun and ended, they are superficial-that is to say, they do not pass through the fabric like ordinary embroidery-stitches,

but cover only the woot' @being woven in and out through or under the warp B.

I am aware that tapestries have been embroidered by inserting ornamental threads in spaces between the woven Woof-threads of the fabric, such threads being held by the warpthreads under the woef-threads, where they appear in the interstices between the Woofthreads.` Such embroideriesor needle-woven tapestries I do not claim; but,

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The method of embroidering woven fabrios which consists in carrying with a needle ornamental threads longitudinally over the woot' and under some of the crossing threads, but not through the fabric, except at the ends of the threads, Where they are fastened, substantially as described.

2. An embroidered fabric having,` the Woofthreads covered longitudinally by ornamental threads, which are held in place by the crossin'g threads of the fabric and passed through [o the fabric only at the ends, where they are fastened, substantially as described.

OANDAGE VHEELER. Witnesses:

J. J. STORER, C. SEDGWIGK. 

